284 | Scientific Intelligence. 
e 4, ae Beneath the Waters, or, The Aquarium in America ; by A. 
ps, member of the N. Y. Lyce um of Natural History. New Y fe 
H. Bailliere, 1858.—Notwithstanding the great interest which has been 
felt in this country for the last two years in the beautiful water-gardens 
which form the subject of this book, the public have as yet been entirely 
dependent for a knowledge of their construction and management upon 
the various ogi works relating to them, which have appeared in rapid 
suc os e the year 1850, when they were first invented in that 
The a Suton J in these works answers admirably for stu- 
Sots on the transatlantic shores, but is of little use in our country, where 
the aquatic animals, both fresh-water and marine, are mostly very different 
from those of Eur 
The announcement of the title of the work, “The Aquarium in Ameria, 
was hailed with pleasure by the man lovers of nature on this side of ge a: 
Atlantic,—notwithstandin the implied assertion that it was sled intro- 
duced here, while i in fact, these self: supporting aqua-vivaria were here 
and us of the animals aid sis placed i in be was felt by all 
This want, however, the work before us fails to supply. Notwithstanding. 
its. ng title, it is still a British book, consisting in great part % 
ill se matter from Gosse, Humphrey, Hibberd, and other British — 
suppose that a large number of the species belonging to that country are 
commonly found on our ae while in fact they do not exist here at all. 
n page 23, for instance, our author in describing oer ntents of his 
tank, mentions ‘Actinia mesentbryanthemum , A. fragace tigrina, and 
= A. gemmacea ; but omits to mention that these are all British species. It 
is somewhat surprising that Mr. Edwards should have had to import 
Actinie from Europe, when we have so many equally sree species 
living among our own rocks and islands; but this, as well as the ee 
tenor of the work, sbupdpaly shows that the author has but a very slight 
The list of sea 
ani imals is very. seer thus out of some 600 species known to inhabit 
our Shores, only about thirty or fo orty are mentioned, and these by 2° — 
he most beautiful and "ihereting, nor the best adapted for an exis 
ence. imprisoned in the aquarium, 
_ Among the animals attributed to America, but which do not re really 
nist here, the following may be mentioned: The 7’riton figured on plat 
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